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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1929. Welling: Scorches Report Of Leggat (Continued from page 4) First National Brig-ha- m 20,000 20,000 National Copper Salt 100,000 100,000 Lake City Utah State National-S- alt Lake City 0 to 500,000 150,000 It will be noted that these funds are 98 protected except in case of our clearing house bank through which all When our business is transacted. settlement was made with the Treasurer at the close of the September quarter we had little or no money at our clearing house bank at all. On October 31 we had approximately 100,000 dollars. It is conceded that the amount is always greater than our coverage by the end of the quarter. Mr. Leggat says we are compelled by law to have depository bonds as coverage . That of course is not the law at all and just here one of our difficulties arises. I have required depository bonds in all cases. The banks are now urging that I take municipal bonds, school bonds and the like, which would cost them nothing, and are asking cancellation of their depository bonds which I dislike to do. to assist parties have made good and returned differently, the state owed me more the money. If Mr. Leggat found any than four times the expense money adhave he this department might dressed himself to a solution of this evidence in that fund of money having involved in this transaction which, of question, in place of merely having been taken it was for that purpose, course, was not spent for me personpointed out a perfectly obvious situa- and it emphasized on its face anen- - ally, but for the state. As soon as I tion which is hard to solve. It he had tirely honest purpose, otherwise no; returned proper expense vouchers wanted to be fair to me he might also notation need have been placed there were sent to the Auditor and in due have advised the auditor that my at all, since, as he says, no check was time his check issued to cover same coverage on the clearing house possible. and the money at once returned to the account was exactly six times that Mr. Leggat's analysis of our Sus- suspense occount. This entire transcarried by my predecessor, who served pense fund shows that he knows little action was completed October 25. through two thirds of this audit or nothing about how it is accum- Leggat's report is dated November ulated or accounted for. His recom- 1st. Any day between my return on period. ' I have no fault to find with Mr. mendation that it be turned in as October 12 and the publication of this Legatt's discussion of our over and fees up to June SO, 1929 would, if venomous statement- - Leggat had acshort account. When the audit was carried out, deprive many people of cess to the facts. He did not want made it was around $100 cash over; funds paid to us upon which the facts and I denounce the spirit ar.dj surely not a large amount consider- 6tate has, up to this time, been unable letter of his statement as a contempt-- ; ing our volume of business. I have to give return value in service. If Mr. ible falsehood. Gentlemen, if I ever gone into that fund perhaps a half Leggat had given the matter even sink 60 low that a man of Mr Leggats dozen times in the year. For example casual investigation he would have reputation can justly reprove me for a woman came to our counter for known that we are still paying back "not setting a proper example to his plates. She had shipped four or five money from this suspense account employees" I will leave the service of trucks home to Ogden from California. which was sent to us nineteen months the state. I have given twenty-fiv- e They were held at Ogden by the rail ago. I now quote in detail the last years of my life to public service. It road at irreat exDense to her because paragraph of his comment on this has been my pride to keep that ser' she dared not put them on the high-- . account: vice clean. I will not have it defiled if me told She to without Statement No. by this disappointed office seeker to j plates. way "Again referring she could get plates she could put the 7 it will be noted that the "Suspense" day. trucks to work on the Red Butte Dam fund includes a cash slip of M. H Mr. Leggat for months after my in this city. I believed her story, took Welling for $350.00. This was used election sought various positions with the cost of a sej; of plates from over by Mr. Welling as a revolving fund which I had something to do. I looked and short and assumed personal res- but I have been unable to find any for opportunities to be helpful to ponsibility. In every such case the authority sanctioning this act and at him. It was finally annonced to the the present time the cash slip in public press that he would be appointquestion is nothing more than an I ed Secretary of the Securities ComO. U. The head of the department mission. Instantly a volume of pro indulging in this practice is certainly test arose which could not possibly be not setting a proper example to his ignored. Reasons reflecting upon his employees and it should be stopped. former employment were stated. I The man who wrote that revealed told him he could not have the the venom which has run through appointment unless those protests every paragraph of this report. It is were answered. They have not been false both in spirit and in fact answered. He knows what those This suspense account is not fees reasons are and he knows that I know and does not become such until the them and for the present that is state has accepted the money and ren sufficient. dered return service. When Mr. LegI am able to prove that he has gat began our audit months ago with openly boasted about his determinaMr. Reid, I am advised that this sus- tion to injure me. His statements pense account was checked and found here alluded to were back stairs to be in perfect balance. It remained gossip in the capitol long before they so until September 26th, four days were given publicity by his report. On before the audit period closed. Before all this developed I was that day I left to attend the conven- responsible with you gentlemen in tion of Secretaries of State at Boston. getting him the position which he Because the account was static and holds today. The result of this audit could not possibly be applied to any. shows he lacks fitness for his present demand of the state, I withdrew from task. . it the money thought necessary to pay audit ; covers a the ordinary expense to the trip for This ofpretendedseven -twenty period months, eighthe State, amounting to $350.00 teen of which were under the months leaving in its place a complete memor- former administration. It involves andum of the transaction. I am advised that it had been so treated re- two Secretaries and more than one hundred trusted of the peatedly in the past. Four days later State. There are employees men older and my salary check for three months was wiser than whose here myself working sent to my office in "toy absence and or integrity or both is here placed in the office safe. In addition ability for the first time. - You questioned a second voucher from the State Auditor for $62.79 in my favor was in will search its comment in vain for the hands of my secretary during the one word of grudging commendation two weeks of my absence. Stated or generous praise. A bank teller who has received our daily deposit i Wtia V from our cashiers for ten months has testified to me that never in his experience before has he known more than $2,000,000 to pass through his hands without a single error in listing more than 200,000 small items of deposit. All this and much more can be easily passed by Mr. Leggat to make room for mere parrot-likcraping criticism and meaningless disser tations based upon law not now upon the statute books or if there at all erroneously referred to, and misinter preted. One word, Mr. Ajax, to you in' con clusion. I believe fully in your ability we and complete devotion to the interests of the state. I like the fine men from your force who come freely through my office each day in the orderly transaction of our business. We all depend much upon their integrity and intelligence. I have before called your attention to the crowded condition of my office. Our offices join. You have more than three times the space per worker than I have. If you concur in the least in the criticism of Mr. Leg gat I appeal to you again in the interest of the state to turn over to us a little of the space we badly need to correct some of the obvious difficult-- : cost ies in the way of more efficient work. If J Mr. Leggat had wanted J.C.PENNEYC0 EAST MAIN STREET, TREMONTON, UTAH Things for your home! Things for yourself! Prepare here for Thanksgivlnq I SPECIAL ON DINNER WARE percent off You get a ticket on all purchases of these specials for every 25c purchase. 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